On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:49:47AM -0700, lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
Do you want to put it on the new server or the old one? Magnus
has done an intitial translation for the new software, and Brion's
conversion scripts are complete, so I'd just need to get my hands
on the existing database, do the initial installation, and then
hopefully hand over maintenance to Magnus.
Woulnd't it be better to have a set-up where all updates to the codebase of
the English Wikipedia are (semi-)automatically propagated to all Wikipedias
that use the same codebase? If not I fear that the non-English Wikipedias
will keep on lagging behind on the bug fixes or new features such the
enhanced recent changes page or subtle (or not so subtle) changes in the
markup language, or whatever changes are yet to come. Making the updates
automatic would also ensure that all futere changes in the Wikipedia are
internationalization aware, because it they're not the bug reports will
start coming in from the non-English Wikpedias.
Having said that, it should of course be the community of the German
Wikipedia who decides if they really want such a setup. But if they do, then
please let us get things right this time.
-- Jan Hidders